We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that’s going on between the East and West.
AFRIKA BAMBAATAAWhen you talk about rap you have to understand that rap is part of the Hip-Hop culture.
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All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music.
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When you talk about hip-hop, you’re talking about the whole culture and movement. You have to take the whole culture for what it is.
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I am one of the founders of Hip-Hop along with my brothers Kool DJ Herc and Grandmaster Flash.
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I’m as old as the moon and the stars, and as young as the trees and the lakes. My style comes from looking at what came before me, and from visiting a lot of places.
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It could be breakdancing, freestyle dancing or whatever type of dancing that’s happening now in the Black, Hispanic and White community.
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I always say it’s gonna become universal as we become a galactic union.
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That’s definitely my goal, and always has been through the Universal Zulu Nation, is to show that music breaks down all that foolishness and can bring all types of people together, especially when you can mix it and shape it.
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I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound.
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When Planet Rock came out, then you had all of the electro funk records.
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Hip-hop has crossed many boundaries and racial barriers, broken them down for people to come together, to listen to the music or come out of their own social ills in each of the countries that it has went to.
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That won’t work in their interest. They gotta get you ready for your microchip.
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You treat people with greatness and greatness will come back to you.
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The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work.
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November is Hip-Hop History Month, where we give celebration to what hip hop has done to bring together people of the world, people of all nationalities, young people, all the political systems and politicians on the planet.
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It ain’t no joke when you lose your vinyl.
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